Alert archive / Iowa / 2001
Weather alerts in Iowa, August 2001
68 weather alerts in August 2001, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 68
- Warnings
- 63
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 17, 200117 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Ida, Woodbury | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 8:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Sioux | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 8:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 8:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Clay, O'Brien | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 9:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Sac | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 9:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Pocahontas | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 9:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 17 min |
| Aug 2, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto, Pocahontas | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 10:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Webster | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Jones | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Scott | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Muscatine | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 1:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Jefferson, Van Buren | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 5:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Davis | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Pocahontas, Sac | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Van Buren | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Wapello | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 24 min |
| Aug 3, 7:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Greene | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 8:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 9:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Van Buren | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Lee | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon, Sioux | 33 min |
| Aug 17, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 33 min |
| Aug 17, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Sioux | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Ida and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Sioux | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Monona | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 15 min |
| Aug 17, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth | 16 min |
| Aug 17, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Ida, Woodbury | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 29 min |
| Aug 17, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 28 min |
| Aug 17, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Monona | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Shelby | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Shelby | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Shelby | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 46 min |
| Aug 22, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 6 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Wayne | 41 min |
| Aug 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis | 40 min |
| Aug 22, 11:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Lee | 4 hr |
| Aug 24, 6:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Carroll, Sac | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux | 5 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Van Buren | 5 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 40 |
| Tornado Warning | 14 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 9 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Plymouth County11
- Woodbury County9
- Cherokee County7
- Sioux County7
- Monona County6
- Ida County4
- Sac County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Lee County4
- Van Buren County4
- Lyon County4
- Buena Vista County3
- O'Brien County3
- Calhoun County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Davis County3
- Appanoose County3
- Shelby County3
- Clay County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Scott County2
- Wapello County2
- Dickinson County2
- Osceola County2
- Harrison County2
- Webster County1
- Jones County1
- Muscatine County1
- Louisa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Greene County1
- Monroe County1
- Emmet County1
- Kossuth County1
- Winnebago County1
- Crawford County1
- Cass County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.